Michelle Ma Belle's votes on the list 2025 National Book Award Finalists

Listopia > Michelle Ma Belle's votes on the list 2025 National Book Award Finalists (25 Books)

1	The True True Story of Raja the Gullible by Rabih Alameddine 4.14 avg rating — 2,949 ratings "Fiction Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 9,276 ratings "Fiction Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Antidote by Karen Russell (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 11,590 ratings "Fiction Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	North Sun: Or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther by Ethan Rutherford (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 788 ratings "Fiction Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Palaver by Bryan Washington 3.78 avg rating — 1,517 ratings "Fiction Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (Goodreads Author) 4.62 avg rating — 33,989 ratings "Nonfiction Finalist" Michelle added it to interested See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy by Julia Ioffe 4.58 avg rating — 496 ratings "Nonfiction Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li 4.38 avg rating — 5,465 ratings "Nonfiction Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care by Claudia Rowe (Goodreads Author) 4.35 avg rating — 509 ratings "Nonfiction Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World by Jordan Thomas 4.37 avg rating — 899 ratings "Nonfiction Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The New Economy by Gabrielle Calvocoressi 4.62 avg rating — 55 ratings "Poetry Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Becoming Ghost: Poetry by Cathy Linh Che (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 164 ratings "Poetry Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Scorched Earth: Poems by Tiana Clark (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 432 ratings "Poetry Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken 4.38 avg rating — 540 ratings "Poetry Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems by Patricia Smith (Goodreads Author) 4.63 avg rating — 62 ratings "Poetry Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	On the Calculation of Volume III by Solvej Balle 4.11 avg rating — 3,736 ratings "Translated Literature Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara 3.75 avg rating — 1,134 ratings "Translated Literature Finalist" Michelle added it to interested See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 2,457 ratings "Translated Literature Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	We Computers: A Ghazal Novel by Hamid Ismailov (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 79 ratings "Translated Literature Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Sad Tiger by Neige Sinno 4.20 avg rating — 14,494 ratings "Translated Literature Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	A World Worth Saving: (National Book Award Finalist) by Kyle Lukoff 3.88 avg rating — 577 ratings "Young People's Literature"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	The Leaving Room by Amber McBride (Goodreads Author) 4.10 avg rating — 540 ratings "Young People's Literature" Michelle added it to interested See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story by Daniel Nayeri 4.19 avg rating — 1,203 ratings "Young People's Literature"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Truth Is: A Novel in Verse by Hannah V. Sawyerr (Goodreads Author) 4.55 avg rating — 201 ratings "Young People's Literature"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	(S)Kin by Ibi Zoboi (Goodreads Author) 3.85 avg rating — 811 ratings "Young People's Literature"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars